A life in balance? : reopening the family-work debate /

Magazine articles, talk shows, and commercials advise us that our happiness and well-being rest on striking a balance between work and family. It goes unsaid, however, that the advice is based on an outmoded and unrealistic ideal. This provocative volume challenges the notion - often offered in supp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Krull, Catherine, Sempruch, Justyna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Work and family > Canada.
Caregivers > Family relationships > Canada.
Women > Employment > Canada.
Women > Canada > Social conditions.
Travail et familles > Canada.
Aidants naturels > Relations familiales > Canada.
Femmes > Travail > Canada.
Femmes > Canada > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Caregivers > Family relationships
Women > Employment
Women > Social conditions
Work and family
Canada
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 3: Feminist-Informed Family Initiatives and Family Visions
  • Beyond the "Cultural" Landscape of Care: Queering Childcare, Caregiver, and Work / Justyna Sempruch
  • Working-Time Regimes, Flexibility, and Work-Life Balance: Gender Equality and Families / Judy Fudge
  • The Increasing Invisibility of Mothering / Margaret Hillyard Little
  • Epilogue : A Feminist Vision for Caring-Employment Integration in Canada / Susan A. McDaniel.
  • Part 2: Integrating Family and Work
  • Work, Care, Resistance, and Mothering: An Indigenous Perspective / Donna Baines and Bonnie Freeman
  • "I Am the Patient and Compassionate Cashier" : Learning through Unpaid Household Work for Paid Work / Margrit Eichler
  • Employment in the New Economy and the Impact on Canadian Families / Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo
  • What Impedes Fathers' Participation in Care Work? Theorizing the Community as an Institutional Arena / Andrea Doucet
  • Addressing the Interlocking Complexity of Paid Work and Care: Lessons from Changing Family Policy in Quebec / Patrizia Albanese.
  • Introduction : Diversifying the Model, Demystifying the Approach: The Work-Family Debate Reopened / Catherine Krull and Justyna Sempruch
  • Part 1: Transcending the Prevailing Myths
  • Destabilizing the Nuclear Family Ideal: Thinking beyond Essentialisms, Universalism, and Binaries / Catherine Krull
  • Intergenerational Care Work: Mothering, Grandmothering, and Eldercare / Nancy Mandell and Sue Wilson
  • Maternal Employment, Childcare, and Public Policy / Maureen Baker.

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